Summary: Help! I have an old 486 that I FDISKed and I need to reinstall DOS on it so that I can install either Win 3.1 or Win 95 on it. If anyone has MS-DOS ...
Summary: Hi, i have been having problems with Dos, i recive an error message saying "the system file is not suitable for running ms-dos and microsfot windows a...
Summary: I've just format a hard drive of a 486 computer, it won't let me reinstall dos 5, it says my partitions are still in use, what does this mean? ...
Summary: I have got a "missing operating system" on a pc I was given from someone who couldn't get it to work. I formatted & reinstalled dos & it would still g...
Summary: Go into the bios of your computer and double check to make sure it is set to boot from the hard disk. I'm not sure exactly where you should look as a...
Summary: If this message is referring to a error in the config.sys file, you don't need to reinstall dos, you just need to edit config.sys. Does the message a...
Summary: Please send DOS 6.22 to me. Also maybe you can help me by advising me what to do about - since I took everything off and formatted hard drive and had ...
Summary: Hello everyone, I tried to install DOS on my old 486dx2/66 today, and everything works fine until I have to restart after the installation. DOS doesn'...
Summary: I am having a problem with DOS that I believe started when I made the mistake of messing with my virtual memory settings. I tried to change it to 'let...
Summary: Just exit to the dos prompt using the F4 key. And type format c: /s This will sort the hdd out. Then try reinstalling dos with your disks. ...
Summary: format c: /u the command switch "U" is for "unconditional" thats going to remove any and all......... totally........ hmm... are we getting anywhere? ...
Summary: I have an old pentium pc i installed dos 5.0 on with a old 3com isa network card. Can someone explain how to network this with tcp/ip with dhcp to ob...
Summary: Sounds like a Windows issue - there's not much to be done in DOS if all you have is a 'recovery disk' - check your documentation I'm not saying there...
Summary: Where did you get your DOS disks from? Are they downloads? If so in what format (i.e. Zip, Img or what).... I got them from my teacher at school. The...
Summary: I reformatted the hard drive of my Toshiba 8086. And now I would like to reinstall DOS 3.3. However, when I started the computer with the disk in the ...
Summary: new situation first the x: as i typed above was a miss type. but i was told the cd rom i bought dwont work for my 486ds it needs 486dx. so i took my b...
Summary: OK do you have this file on your pc? do a search with dir himem.sys /s do that from the root drive typically c:\ if it isn't on your hard drive, do yo...
Summary: Actually you got caught out, but if you are lucky you might save a huge amount of time. When you reinstall dos the autoecec and config file get writte...
Summary: Hi Diane, Your 486 may not have enough RAM to run Windows 98. If you have less than 16MB of RAM it may not be enough to run Win98's Active Desktop, a...
Summary: I formated/not on purpose,all I had was a 98 startup disk. I have all the dos 5.0 files,but I can't get the 98 dos off so the sys will recognise dos 5...
Summary: please i can't run dos properly, when ever i quit a dos program into windows 98 i get a jumbled up looking screen, impossible to make out anything i h...
Summary: just save the folder on another partition or hard drive. remember to add wp5 to your path statement after you reinstall DOS. That's one of the nice th...
Summary: Wengier, PLEAUSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE stop trying to turn this into a hack n crack site. There NEVER was an installer for "DOS 7x" as you call it. It wa...
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